Back in February, President Obama issued a national call to service to help mobilize ordinary citizens to come together and engage in civic projects in service of their fellow citizens and the nation. The focal point for this self-driven community activism and volunteerism is the new government website, Serve.gov, which has labeled the campaign “United…

…in that it is being hijacked by extremists who are not representative of the mainstream, but who inexplicably seem to be in control of the PR department. For better or worse – this is what the face of conservatism today looks like: The evident self-refuting nature of this does conservatism a grave injustice. I will…

This is an interesting development – Yahoo has bought the Arabic-language portal Maktoob.com: The global internet giant said on Tuesday it has entered into a definitive agreement with Jordan-based Maktoob Group to acquire Maktoob.com for an undisclosed fee. Maktoob Business is a part of Maktoob.com. [..] The acquisition will allow Yahoo! to offer Arabic-language content…

The first week of Ramadan is often the hardest, posing the greatest challenge (both mental and physical) of integrating Ramadan into our lives. While it would be easy to claim that we simply “turn on Ramadan” like a light switch, in reality like anything else there is an initial period of borderline chaos while we…

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